Back Yard Farming

Spring Garden 2011

Well finally I am able to update. The Spring garden is ready for planting and hopefully the weather will cooperate. The garden is now all raised beds making it easier to work them and plant as well as maintain. I have wanted to do this for several years and now have it implemented. I have installed a low tunnel over one and have already planted salad greens.

The early salad greens and also broccoli planted under a low tunnel in the garden. This picture was taken in the third week of March. Everything is doing fine and is about a month and a half ahead or normal plant out date for me.

This years garden is going to be more intensely planted and will have a much larger variety of crops. I am looking forward to a productive year and hope to be able to use my new dehydrator  to preserve a lot more of this years crop.

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Vegetable Garden Winding down

Well it was a very bountiful year in the vegetable garden 2010. Alas though the summer vegetables are all just about harvested. We had a bumper crop of tomatoes and peppers seems the hot weather and abundant rainfall this season agreed with them. The broccoli sill is producing as well as a few zucchini. he Brussels sprouts are getting large and some are ready for harvest. I have left a few bean pods on the vine to save some seeds for next years crop and I am drying some of the black krim tomato and purple Cherokee tomato for next year. I will post a new article under Back Yard Farming latter this weekend on how to save heirloom tomato seeds. Read more…

August Harvest From The Vegetable Garden

Well I guess you could call it July August harvest. Last week we canned 12 pints of giardiniera and this week 12 pints of Salsa. The harvest of peppers this year is spectacular. Lots of cayenne peppers are turning red already and the cucumbers have been growing overnight pick them today and they are back tomorrow. Also the eggplants have been doing really well. Everything has done extremely good this year. We have had a lot of hot weather which has really helped.
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July Gardening

Gardening in July usually means hot and sticky weather. This year is no exception. The best time to get out in the garden is early morning as soon as possible after sunrise. Working in the cool of the morning will allow you to get more done then as the temperature rises you can move indoors and get a relief from the weather.
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